<div dir="ltr">Dear Walu,<div><br></div><div style>Are you suggesting we approve with open arms the mammon called dollarization? </div><div style>I am just curious! <a href="http://clknet.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/PB1-Dollarization-of-the-Tanzanian-Economy.pdf/">http://clknet.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/PB1-Dollarization-of-the-Tanzanian-Economy.pdf/</a></div>
<div style><br></div><div style>We surely have a long way to go in creating our own information even though we have our own knowledge about issues like this.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Keep thinking and discussing...</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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this is where we go wrong. We (East Africans) pay top-dollar to be members of ITU and then we consistently ignore their research output for various reasons - including lying :-). In which case we should at least stop being members and save the money for something else. Incidentally, ITU has been around for donkey years doing policy research in telecomms and we should at least give their report some little respect and attention.<br>
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But if we doubt them, we should produce alternate research like what Eng. Dr. Zaipuna O. Yonah, PhD has done with Research ICT Africa report- whic shows that actually .TZ has the most affordable internet services. From the quick reading of that I can see that perhaps what Research ICT Africa failed to do was that they did not "normalize" their figures.<br>
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What this means is that if a coke or any product is 1USD in the US and it is also 1USD in Kenya, that coke is still considered more expensive in Kenya because of differentials in national income levels i.e. they are not equally affordable . Put differently an American finds it easier to spend the 1USD than the Kenyan would.<br>
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On Tue, 10/15/13, Brian Munyao Longwe <<a href="mailto:blongwe@gmail.com" target="_blank">blongwe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] [eThinkTankTz] Uganda has the cheapest Broadband Internet in E-Africa.<br>
To: <a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jwalu@yahoo.com</a><br>
Cc: "I-Network Uganda" <<a href="mailto:i-network@dgroups.org" target="_blank">i-network@dgroups.org</a>>, "eThinkers" <<a href="mailto:ethinktanktz@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">ethinktanktz@yahoogroups.com</a>>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br>
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It's a lie, I am here and<br>
frustrated with high costs of broadband...<br>
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How about the attached report? Sometimes, you got<br>
to find a comparative approach to make sense out of these<br>
studies. Sometimes it matters who reports.....But the<br>
customer knows the truth!<br>
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Consulting Engineer in ICTs<br>
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This comes as a suprise. One would have thought Kenya and TZ<br>
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conne Submarine connectivity/Gatewyas at Mombasa and Dar<br>
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But according to the latest 2013 ITU report that has been<br>
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Cost of broadband internet in Kenya is put at 49% of the<br>
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